January 7, 2009

Rush Limbaugh, just now, ridiculing the Democrats' racial attitudes, likened that quote to Joe Biden's famous assessment of Barack Obama: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

Now that's important to know about Senator Burris. Does this mean to say that he's not another one of Pres.Obama's Rev. Wright type of friends? Once more Boss Reid is sending signals to Pres. Obama that Power in the new Democrat Regime is not Pres. Obama's until Boss Reid approves.

I do think it's fair (or at least fun) to engage in a little game of Imagine If. Wherein we Imagine If Majority Leader Bill Frist refused to seat the lawfully appointed Senator Burris - the only African American Senator.

I think it is a window into the mind of the liberal elite. They are always for you, as long as you remember you are beholding to their good grace in pulling up up from wherever you were. I'd love to know what Reid actually was expecting of the man.

Burris wasn't just found someplace and given something. Well, maybe he was given something, but he certainly didn't appear at the Senate door out of thin air.

As I have posted before (always after the end of the thread), Harry Reid made visible his racist stripes when, in 2004 on Meet the Press, he said Clarence Thomas was "an embarrassment" to the Supreme Court and that Thonas' opinions were "poorly written", while at the same time praising Justice Scalia.

I need to make a retraction. Next to Michael, our intrepid tourettes syndrome moron, Harry "The dumbest man in the Senate, running a close second to Patrick Leahey" Reid is showing promise.

Hey Michael, you ever get the feeling that no matter how much you spew, vacillate, squirm, and basically lie your way into the commentary section that you never feel fully satisfied with that oh-so-fresh feeling until you've sprayed a little FDS where it counts and put the tampon back in?

Who the hell are you kidding? Right wingers and namely conservatives despise political correctness. Political correctness is what set us up as a society to be on this road of verbal interpitude and duplicity. That's why when they see such a blatant use of it by leftist morons that you support they just throw it back in their hypocritical faces.

I've been told that Mormons are very bad White people. Extremely pinkish in a non commie sort of way.

He probably has a few racist attitudes clanking around inside that bony old borderline carcass of his.

Michael, stop denying the obvious - Harry Reid is a bitter old White racist who learned to hate negroes while growing up in the Mormon church.

Harry Reid is also an anti-abortion, homophobe who is strongly in favor of the death penalty which we all know is a modern form of lynching which targets people of African ancestry.

I'm beginning to suspect some reactionary sympathies in you Michael. I sincerely hope that as you mature and move into your high school years you will leave behind your anti-gay and anti-black attitudes.

michael is always talking about sex, even though he's still in middle school. dad thinks it's because michael's dad left and his mom moved in with that other woman who lifts weights all the time. dad says its compensation or condensation or something like that. constipation maybe.

Democrats are the real racists here. But the 95% of blacks that vote for them aren't smart enough to figure that out on their own. Same with the Jewish vote that always go Democratic. What are they thinking?

It's the anti-gay bigotry that sometimes makes me think Lucky is actually a conservative doing an elaborate parody a liberal troll. Surely a true liberal (as he claims to be) would know that calling someone gay as an insult is gaycist.

Not to say he is not a real person. Obviously there is a real person somewhere hitting the keyboard. It's just that "LuckyOldson" ( now known as "Michael") is a character. And that character lacks the self-awareness of a real person.

Any conservative party I'd want to be in would not try to say that Reid's comments were related to race. I don't see the fun in Rush and others doing this. Of course I wouldn't have sent out the Satlsman/Rush song either. It seems that I don't have the proper sensibility to join this fun club of race jokers.

RaceJokers National Committee

A fun time for all*!

*'All' not meant literally.

P.S.Some conservatives have complained that the Magic song didn't see much opposition when Rush was pushing it on his show. The real fuss came when it was formally introduced into the RNC debate. This situation only proves that there aren't a bunch of media elites looking to attack every hint of un-PC race stuff.

It was only AFTER this was directly related to a major political party that folks started to big-time question it's appropriateness. And, eventually (after plenty of crickets) many conservatives acknowledged it was unwise (thereby implicitly acknowledging (or pretending to acknowledge) the content of the song was problematic)--so these conservatives themselves agree that this was a situation worthy of disapproval.

More precisely many of them agree that this song is unacceptable as "fun" in the daylight, w/ clear connections to the RNC. Which says a lot. They should drop there public concern and tell folks that they don't have any problem w/ the song, and FU to anyone who does, and the song should be made into the RNC theme song so they can stand up the the PC police.

The Republicans trying to use PC as a ju jitsu tactic is just as lame.

I look forward to the day when affirmative action ends, identity politics abates, and people can openly say Burris or Obama made a stupid mistake or are acting lazy or appear ignorant without the media, the usual race-baiters, or right wing talk radio having a cow over it.

I want Obama to succeed. I want Republicans to get their act together. I want an end to unaccountable Ruling Elites that have bypassed democracy, corrupted the system, and now run the country from the Imperial City, NYC.

If we don't succeed, get our act together, end the rampant corruption of money injected into determining outcomes more favorable to the Elites than the masses...We may have to face a reality that the present US system has failed, both Parties cannot rule effectively, and neither can "unfettered free markets". Where drastic action is absolutely necessary.

Then we have to consider as a viable alternative - a 3rd, violent revolution (after the Colonial and Civil War ones). Military caretaker rule. With a complete revamping of our Constitution, legal system, regulatory structure, tax code, social welfare system. With a goal to restore the Republic to functioning condition.

Obama and the Democrats fail, after the Republican failure, we are another 4 trillion in debt and closer to needing a real Revolution.

Mary, you single out the one woman in a multi-party conversation and tell her she should get back to the wash and the housekeeping? Thanks, but the house is well in hand. I thought you were banned from posting here anyway.

I've been reading Althouse since before she enabled comments. I didn't read the comments for a long time because the comments on other blogs was never worth the effort and I assumed it would be the same here.

Now I regret never seeing the comments of the infamous Mary and others who were banned in the early days (someone called Quxxo maybe?). I only get brief glimpses of seemingly random and nonsensical comments before they are deleted.

It's like finding an incomplete archeological record of some long-lost civilization.

Well, I assume it's like that. I'm not an archeologist, so I wouldn't know.

Michael said...jdeeripper - "Harry Reid is a bitter old White racist who learned to hate negroes while growing up in the Mormon church."

So now you're going to start in on the Mormons and elderly white people?

Well, if the subject is White racism and negrophobia then yes we should start with the elderly White folks and the Mormons.

Harry Reid is a twofer and that makes him a very bad man.

Michael, you should oppose the mugging, the lynching of this dignified African American person of color. Roland Burris is about to make history by becoming the strong, proud black Senator from Illinois.

And yet you refuse to be outraged by the dastardly deeds of that ole pink monster Harry Reid.

Please don't respond to Mary. I delete all her comments. She's has been told never to post here but insists on writing here in a way that I view as harassment within the meaning of the state criminal code. She needs to stop now.

I've gotten plenty of blowjobs over my life time, but always from women.

Wow. This guy is a sad, sad case. Whoever goaded Michael into this statement must've struck a cluster of very sensitive nerves. Pleading that "I'm not gay and women like my weiner" has got to be one of the most overcompensating outbursts I've ever seen, on- or off-line.

It puts pretty much everything he has to say here in its proper context. My goodness.

Eli Blake said..."and let's face it, his meeting with Reid was for all intents and purposes, a job interview."

You see, that way of looking at it is how Reid et al got themselves into this mess. This wasn't a job interview, Eli - Burris already got the job. This was the meeting where the new middle manager meets the other middle managers, and the old managers seethe in impotent hatred of the new guy, fully aware that the decision as to whether he stays or goes is above their pay grade. This was a meeting in which Harry Reid and the Senate Democratic Leadership desperately searched for some way to get out of this with their dignity intact - to either give Burris the seat he's so plainly entitled to despite their contrary bloviations, or to talk him into dropping the matter.

This will end in a humiliating climbdown by Reid, or a humiliating defeat in the courts for Reid - one or the other. And he knows it. He ran his mouth before the facts were in, and now he's trying to find some way out of the bluff, despite looking more ridiculous every day.

In addition to what Simon said, Reid's statement is extremely condescending. Burris isn't some guy off the street who nobody has ever heard of. He's got an inarguably Senatorial resume. Of course he presents well. What on Earth would have made Reid think there was any possibility that he didn't?

That's why people are saying it smacks of racism. Would Reid say that of a white guy with the same resume as Burris?

1964-1973 served in various capacities such as tax accountant, tax consultant, commercial banking officer, and vice-president at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company (now Bank of America)1973-1977 Director of IL Department of Central Management Services1979-1991 Comptroller of IL1991-1995 IL Attorney General 1995-present Lawyer, private practice. Campaigned for several offices, including a run for governor where he was supported by Barack Obama.2002-2009 Manager/CEO of Burris & Lebed Consulting, LLC

Wouldn't anyone pretty much assume that a guy with that resume "presents well?"

Freeman Hunt is a habitual piece of garbage, so I can understand why there would be a lot of arguing in here based on whatever inane bullshit she's spewing...but other than that, honestly, what's all the fuss about?

Who in their right mind gives two fucks about Harry Reid? Who in the world would bother trying to defend him or, alternately, call him out on something he's done? Seriously? 100+ comments arguing about racism and Harry Reid? Jesus Christ.

mom thinks michael has some problems with adults because of how he has to dominate all the grown-ups conversations all the time.

Well, that's what happens when you let some of the children escape from their table and let them wander towards the adult table. Besides, Michael trying to dominate an adult conversation is like trying to tell a chihuahua to stop yipping while it humps your leg.

Zachary Paul Sire said..Who in their right mind gives two fucks about Harry Reid?

More people in their right minds should pay attention to powerful men like Harry Reid. Too many Americans assume the President runs the country. In fact the President doesn't even run the Federal Government let alone the country.

Because they are. Blacks are strong, proud, dignified people, filled with rage and hope, an historic people whose rich heritage and proud legacy we should celebrate and whose glorious contributions we should recognize every month of the year not only in February.

Are minorities or African-Americans uniquely strong and proud?

Minorities = no, blacks = yes.

Asians, Hispanics, East Indians, American Indians and even White/Pink people all have their own unique qualities.

Asians = smart, model minorities, law abiding, good in school esp. spelling bees and math, better at copying than creating, unathletic, males tend to be nonsexual, females tend to be the embodiment of sexual passion, can't drive worth shit despite making excellent cars.

Hispanics = vibrant, spicy, hard working, not too bright, generally short, very vibrant, they tend to vibrate a lot which is apparently why they are known to be hard workers. They're trying to burn of the excess vibrational energy.

East Indians = good at math, computer software, donuts, slurpees, dark but nothing like the blacks/Africans. Like Jews only darker and less funny or irritating.

American Indians = spiritual, live in harmony with nature, tend to get choked up when visiting garbage dumps, big fans of the fire water, pretty much did nothing of value in North America before or after the White man showed up.

White/Pink people = racist, sexist, homophobic or homosexual, tend to enjoy dominating and oppressing EVERYTHING, can't dance, run, jump or sing, need brown people to do their dirty work and yellow people to do their brain work and need black people as a litmus test to prove they are morally superior to Other White People.

Zachary Paul Sire said..."Freeman Hunt is a habitual piece of garbage, so I can understand why there would be a lot of arguing in here based on whatever inane bullshit she's spewing...but other than that, honestly, what's all the fuss about?"

Zachary, that doesn't sound like you. I see you as one of the best commenters, as is Freeman. She made an excellent comic comment, and you're diminishing yourself being so sour and insulting.

The media's fawning over Obama knew no bounds, and yet, in the midst of the most incredible media conspiracy to turn this jug-eared clodhopper into some combination of Winston Churchill and a young Elvis, you were being a bore if you mentioned the liberal media...

There is no other explanation for the embarrassing paeans to Obama's "eloquence." His speeches were a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric Hallmark card bromides...

Zachary, that doesn't sound like you. I see you as one of the best commenters, as is Freeman. She made an excellent comic comment, and you're diminishing yourself being so sour and insulting.

Sounds like him just fine. What you are seeing is the typical meanderings of a weak mind and what do you do? Well, you sort of show up, pat him on the back, brush back his hair and ask him why he is being meanie monster. As far as diminishing himself? Well, the proof is in his character and the little glimpses we get to see of them like the one you commented on.

Why the anger over a Senate appointment? It seems far more personal than during the election! Oddly enough it seems to be aimed at those who believe Burris is an idiot, but should be seated anyway (and who think Reid is a weasel.)

Reid: "Burris is certainly one of the better smelling Negroes seeking my permission to join the Senate. All Bayberry Rum and Sandalwood, that one.

Of course, my only other direct "smelly neeger" experience is President/President Elect Obama -- who, by the way, is NOT my boss.

Samboma (inside joke) is a bit B.O.-ish. I mean he just cotton-pickin' works his heart out in the gym. But his passion for cane syrup on his hoecakes almost always sweetens him right up. And fortunately, he was never around here much. Those black boys sure can run, huh?

Anywho. No black American Senator in this house smells nearly as bad as any of the red, yellow, black and/or white visitors we have had to endure in the Capitol restrooms. Bejeebers! I had to dry clean my temple garments three times a week! And now that I think about it, no neeger Senator smells nearly as bad as as any of the dozens and dozens of neeger Congressmen/women/ whatever who swing by my office on occasion.

But Hoosier, she didn't clap for the Harvey Milk movie, so ipso facto, quid pro quo, res ipsa loquitur, and shamma lamma ding dong, proves all subsequent discussions must include unresolved anger directed at her in any unrelated threads.

No, no, I haven't seen Milk yet. What I did was worse. I dared agree with you that a public street event which includes public sex, peeing on people, drinking pee, and masturbating on people was disgusting. How could I? Horrors!

I agree, Freeman; I was being very oblique, using "clap for" the film as a stand-in for what you wrote, so as not to wake the young man, and stir his rage yet again.

I saw a trailer for Rourke in The Wrestler last night. (Rourke dissed Penn's performance.) Now I'd like to see the film.

Only bad part, it's got the clichéd girlfriend-stripper thing. Is it like some state law in California that all movies must have girlfriends who are strippers-with-a-heart-of-gold in them? Or is that just a local ordinance?

"I won't see Milk because the bio of a minor city official in 1970's San Francisco has about as much appeal to me as rearranging my sock drawer. Plus I can't stand Sean Penn. Ditto. On both counts. Plus, most movies these days suck anyway."

That was exactly my attitude, but I ended up seeing it and, really, overcome that. It's worth it.

Quite the opposite. Freeman is a very engaging, extremely nice young woman, who, judging from her avatar, presents herself well.

And I agree with William: Over the course of a lifetime, I have received an insufficient number of blowjobs, (always from women, natch!) To make things worse, during the same lifetime I have received a superabundance of household maintenance requests from the same women.